Recruiters put off candidates who take selfies

Selfies, poor grammar and references to alcohol on Facebook can put recruiters off hiring candidates as the war on talent intensifies.

That is according to a new survey from Jobvite. The UK Social Recruitment Survey interviewed 500 recruiting and HR professionals.

While 60% of UK recruiters said that they had not used social media in their recruitment in the past year, 33% said that they planned to increase their recruitment via social media.

Facebook was the most used social media platform by the 40% of the recruiters who had used social media platforms to recruit candidates. Of those, 75% said that they had used Facebook as a part of their recruitment process. 57% had used Twitter and 38% had used LinkedIn.